[TowerTalk] Website Alarms the Public about ANTENNAS

[Jim Lux]

At 07:12 AM 5/18/2006, doc wrote:
> > Just hate to see people try to profit on and create new fears in an
> > uninformed public to the detriment of the hobby.
>
>Has anyone communicated with the site owner?
>
>Perhaps he/she could be invited to a Club meeting
>or to visit an EOC and be educated about the value
>and safety of antennas.
>
>Perhaps the site owner does not know about the
>recent FCC regs re. transmitting antenna safety?

Uhh.. I don't think the site owner cares.  What he/she wants is folks to 
send in their ten bucks to get what is, in health terms, a useless report.


>It may turn out that with some gentle education
>the site owner could be turned to promoting Ham
>antennas and towers as important to public safety
>during emergencies.

Not unless you can show them a way to make money from such promotion.  Fear 
sells.  It is a FAR more effective propaganda technique than positive selling.

There's the idea:  You and your loved ones may be in danger unless you 
allow that ham to have his tower!

Jim